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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Material as Witness
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an opening reception for Material as Witness\, curated by Rena Tom! \nMaterial as Witness explores the photograph as object\, with its own material sensibility and narrative. Objects can trigger powerful emotions and memories\, and materials carry their own associations based on tactile properties or cultural significance. The artists in the exhibition engage in image-making\, in a truly hands-on sense\, to subvert (or amplify) the power attributed to photos as documentary evidence and bearers of truth.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/opening-reception-material-as-witness/
LOCATION:Oakland Photo Workshop\, 312 8th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:First Friday Reception — September/October Multi-Artist Show — October 2nd
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a First Friday reception and meet the artists of a our last multi-artist show of the year.  As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month\, and the landscape of CA\, we also celebrate the talents of five unique artists.  Their styles differ widely\, but their dedication to their art is uniform. \nRefreshments will be served.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/first-friday-reception-september-october-multi-artist-show-october-2nd/
LOCATION:Art@Archer\, 431 13th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ongoing Exhibitions
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SUMMARY:Tiny Monster Show ~ Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Whether or not you like monsters\, one has to admit\, most of us like a good scare now and then. The word Monster derives from the Latin monstrum\, itself derived ultimately from the verb moneo (“to remind\, warn\, instruct\, or foretell”). From this vantage point\, monsters take on a new inspiring role\, not to just scare us\, but to inform us.  So what can monsters teach us about our fears\, our society and beyond?\nThe Tiny Monster Show explores our fears so we can take a deeper look at what we’ve been suppressing and what we need to confront. \nFrom classical to political\, The Tiny Monster Show gives space to capture\, reveal\, and maybe conquer those elements that keep us frozen\nin fear and hopefully shine a light on what it means to be human. Hopefully\, you’ll experience a moment of laughter in recognition that you are more powerful than the monster wants you to think. \nDanny Soracco\, Spike Milliken\, Karl Hauser\, Diane Komater\,  Paulette Traverso\,  Artemis Jones\, Nicole Garcia\, Case Conover\, Doug Bloch\, Terry Furry\,  Doug Rhodes\,  Zachary Sweet\, Debra Kay Burger\, Jeremy Ian Meyer\, John Colle Rogers\, Patti Goldstein\, Jessica Dalton\, Denise Owen\,  Ash Volkanic\,  Linda Dittes\, Denise Deleray
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/tiny-monster-show/
LOCATION:The Grand Gallery\, 560 2nd Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Opening Reception
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SUMMARY:inStudio: The Distance Between: Traveling Beyond Count Time
DESCRIPTION:Program & Event Overview\nCurrently on view at Empowerment Avenue’s inStudio in Oakland\, The Distance Between: Traveling Beyond Count Time brings together stories told through the work of Black currently and formerly incarcerated artists. Their work traces histories of enslavement and confinement alongside the realities of incarceration today\, while carrying memory\, endurance\, and imagination toward something beyond them. Together\, these works invite us to explore the space between captivity and liberation\, to see differently\, and to imagine a world beyond systems of punishment. \nSaturday\, October 3 | 12:00–5:00 PM\n12:00 PM | Gallery Opens \nOn Saturday\, inStudio will reopen for an afternoon of art\, conversation\, and community. \nOpen Flow: Community Dialogue\nThroughout the afternoon\, exhibition co-curators De’jon Joy and Christine Lashaw will host an open-flow community dialogue inside the gallery.\nRather than a traditional panel\, the gathering will create space for visitors to move through the exhibition\, ask questions\, sit in conversation\, and reflect together on the histories\, ideas\, and possibilities held within the work. \nCurrently incarcerated participating artists will also call into the gallery at various points throughout the day\, creating opportunities for visitors to hear directly from artists whose work they are encountering on the walls. \nThe weekend invites audiences not simply to view the exhibition\, but to spend time inside its questions: to consider what we have inherited\, what we have normalized\, and what becomes possible when Black artists are given space to imagine beyond captivity.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/instudio-the-distance-between-traveling-beyond-count-time/
LOCATION:inStudio with Empowerment Avenue\, 473 25th St.\, Suite A\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:NEXUS Event at GearBox Gallery
DESCRIPTION:GearBox Gallery joins MoAD and 58 regional art organizations with a NEXUS Event\, featuring a performance by Caleb Dowdell at 1:30pm. Also\, upstairs In the Art Building at Transmission Gallery\, there will be a William Rhodes Artist’s Talk at 2pm with a gospel choir performance.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/nexus-event-at-gearbox-gallery/
LOCATION:Gearbox Gallery\, 770 West Grand Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fear Not - William Rhodes Artist's Talk with Gospel Choir Performance
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for William Rhodes’ talk with gospel choir performance by the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center Choir\, music conductor and leader Kenneth Little\nSaturday\, Oct 3rd starting at 2 pm \nThis is part of a series of NEXUS SFBay events including the Caleb Dowdell performance with his piece\, Our Prism of Dreams\, starting at 1:30 pm just downstairs  at Gearbox Gallery\, performance about 15 minutes. William’s talk starts at 2 pm upstairs with the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center Choir closing out the event with a Gospel Choir performance. See one or both at that galleries at 770 West Grand Ave in Oakland.  \nMore about Fear Not\, William Rhodes’ solo exhibition at Transmission Gallery: \nWilliam Rhodes’s sculptures on view incorporate objects that have been used\, inherited\, discarded\, or found with elements he has carved himself. Trained early on as a furniture maker\, he combines hand carved figures\, flames and snakes with objects collected from a family home\, photographs\, hardware\, tools\, and other remnants of everyday life. Neon words signal from some pieces. \nThe resulting works resemble shrines or memorials\, but they remain grounded in the ordinary. Religious symbols appear alongside household objects. A photograph might be surrounded by carved waves\, tools\, hardware\, animals\, or religious symbols. A suitcase can become an architectural space. A toilet becomes the base of an unexpected monument. Things with little apparent value are carefully incorporated into elaborate constructions\, their histories becoming part of the work.\n​\nRhodes is equally interested in people; family\, mentors\, and leaders\, as well as those who have been overlooked or treated as disposable\, recognizing and elevating their presence in his work. By giving attention to these lives\, enshrining and revering them\, he considers how value is assigned and who gets remembered. \nThe title Fear Not appears in the work as both a phrase and a kind of instruction. It can be read in relation to the religious imagery that runs throughout the sculptures\, but it also takes on a morepersonal meaning. To look closely at lives and objects that are easily dismissed is\, in its own way\, an act of resistance to that dismissal.
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/fear-not-william-rhodes-artists-talk-with-gospel-choir-performance/
LOCATION:Transmission Gallery\, 770 West Grand Ave.\, Suite A\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Artists’ Reception – Julie Engelmann\, Amos Goldbaum\, Liv Losee-Unger\, Fernanda Martínez\, & Deirdre Weinberg
DESCRIPTION:Meet the artists of Big\, Small\, and Everything In Between and celebrate this group exhibition featuring five Bay Area muralists. Join us for an afternoon gathering and a closer look at how these artists bring the color\, energy\, and visual language of their public work into the gallery’s intimate setting. Free and open to the public. \nJulie Engelmann\, based in Half Moon Bay\, works across murals\, paintings\, and digital illustration. Using media ranging from acrylic on canvas to spray paint on large walls\, she creates highly detailed and often surrealistic imagery\, frequently drawing on historical themes and using color and composition to create new visual possibilities.  \nAmos Goldbaum is a San Francisco–based visual artist known for his signature line drawings\, which span canvases\, large-scale murals\, prints\, and apparel. Inspired by the places and everyday scenes around him\, his work combines multiple viewpoints\, angles\, and moments in time into cohesive compositions connected by a singular line. His murals can be found throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and in cities around the world\, including New York\, Los Angeles\, Seattle\, Tokyo\, and Kathmandu.  \nLiv Losee-Unger is a Bay Area muralist known for vibrant\, nature-inspired\, and community-centered art. With more than sixty public artworks completed across the United States and abroad\, her detailed and colorful murals transform spaces through stories of flora\, fauna\, femininity\, and human connection.  \nFernanda Martínez is an Oakland-based painter\, muralist\, and sculptor whose vibrant\, expressive work draws from memories and observations of nature. Born and raised in Mexico City\, she moved to the Bay Area in 2015\, where she has developed an experimental and intuitive practice exploring the emotional depth of color\, form\, pattern\, and texture. Her work spans painting\, sculpture\, murals\, and public art\, transforming her distinctive visual language across two- and three-dimensional forms. Martinez has exhibited her paintings and sculptures in galleries and has collaborated on numerous public art projects for businesses\, nonprofit organizations\, and community-focused and affordable housing developments.  \nDeirdre Weinberg is a multidisciplinary artist with deep ties to the San Francisco Bay Area\, working across murals\, public art\, and studio practice. Her evolving work currently focuses on climate change\, using a limited black-and-white palette to explore landscapes\, seascapes\, and airscapes with a sense of urgency and starkness. Whether creating work in public spaces or the studio\, Weinberg seeks to build community\, connect with viewers\, and inspire conversation\, reflection\, and new perspectives. \nSeptember 26 – October 31\, 2026\nArtists’ Reception: Saturday\, October 3\, 2-4 pm\nOakland Style Week Art Tour: Saturday\, October 10\, 11 am-2 pm\nGallery Hours: Saturdays\, 12-5 pm & First Fridays\, 5-8 pm
URL:https://oaklandartmurmur.org/event/artists-reception-julie-engelmann-amos-goldbaum-liv-losee-unger-fernanda-martinez-deirdre-weinberg/
LOCATION:Manna Gallery\, 473 25th St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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